The Idle Rich (1929)
Wealth and position clash with poverty in a sterling talking feature drama made from the stage success, "White Collars"!
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
- Date of release
- 1929-06-15
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- William C. deMille
Casting
- Conrad Nagel — William van Luyn
- Bessie Love — Helen Thayer
- Leila Hyams — Joan Thayer
- Robert Ober — Henry Thayer
- James Neill — Mr. Phil Thayer
- Edythe Chapman — Mrs. Alice Thayer
- Paul Kruger — Tom Gibney
- Kenneth Gibson — Frank Thayer
Interesting facts
The Idle Rich is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William C. deMille and produced and released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. It is based on the Broadway play White Collars by Edith Ellis, which had played at the Egan Theater in Los Angeles in 1924 before moving to the Cort Theatre in New York.
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